You can deploy and manage box configurations on Linux and Windows virtual machines through ElasticBox in your CloudStack environment. ElasticBox supports Linux and Windows compute services for all CloudStack implementations, such as XenServer, VMware, vSphere, KVM, and Xen.

In order for ElasticBox to configure, deploy, and manage box configurations in CloudStack, both Linux and Windows templates must be bootstrapped with the ElasticBox init agent script. Follow these steps.

When you’re ready to launch an instance in CloudStack, you can define Linux or Windows deployment options in a deployment profile. ElasticBox passes the compute offering, disk offering, and template options you provide in the profile as parameters to CloudStack, which then spins up the virtual machine.

Deployment

Option

Description

Provider

CloudStack account in ElasticBox that you use
to deploy.

Resource

Option

Description

Zone

Availability zone or region isolated for data redundancy where you want to deploy the virtual machine. For example, Zone 1.

Template

Pre-configured OS image from which to boot the virtual machine. It can contain the base OS plus additional configuration
like application files. If you’re deploying a Linux box type, you’ll see Linux templates such as Ubuntu Server 12.04 64-bit
. If you’re deploying a Windows box type, you’ll see Windows templates such as Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise.

Compute Offering

Determines the allotted CPU cores, memory, high availability, and so on for the selected template. The list includes
predefined offerings as well as those configured by you in CloudStack.

Disk Offering

Optional data storage in addition to the inherent disk space on the virtual machine. Choose from predefined offerings such
as small, medium, large or choose an offering that you configured in CloudStack.

Instances

Number of instances to provision for a selected box.

Placement

Option

Description

Network

Default guest network configuration or a pre-configured network to allow traffic to the virtual machine. Consists of the permitted CIDR
block of IP addresses from where traffic to the virtual machine is allowed. For more information, see the
CloudStack help.

Security Groups

Filter incoming and outgoing traffic for the virtual machine based on a set of rules. Multiple security groups in a zone can be selected
for a virtual machine. For more information, see
Security Groups.